Corporate Evolution (Strata NY 2013)

The Evolving Corporation

Being smarter

about

getting smarter

?IQYourCo ≈

IQFord ≈ IQ

From: http://theformofmoney.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2009/3/24/4131366.html

http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Race/R_Overview/Rouge_Plant.htm

Photo Jan Banning http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/bureaucracies-around-the-world

Image source: http://www.inra.fr/hyppz/DESSINS/8032041.gif

Image: http://acrobeles.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/pristionchus-pharynx-connectome/

http://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_24/april_2013/features/the_tiniest_traps_optical_manipulation_gets_smalle/#.UmmuSRYb1jY

Photo: http://www.accenture-blogpodium.nl/best-place-to-work/accentures-history-becoming-a-global-player/

Image source http://dineshns.blogspot.com/2008/12/microsoft-aspnet-mvc-frame-work-and.html

ERP

Finance

SalesHR

Admin Planning

Ops Inventory

http://www.wormatlas.org/hermaphrodite/neuronalsupport/mainframe.htm

Wiring the worm

Bureaucracy is your is your company’s lizard brain.

And your CIO digitized it.

http://sarahgoshman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/lizard-brain.jpg

http://www.lamag.com/featuredarticle.aspx?id=13526&page=2

http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_70s.html http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_kahn.htm

http://www.velocityguide.com/internet-history/lawrence-roberts.html

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap2.htm

Image source: http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/viral/archive/2010/04/12/ssrs-generating-report-with-xml-datasource.aspx

Image Source: http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx11ssrFCN1qb0ukuo1_400.jpg

Yaneer Bar-Yam, Dynamics of Complex Systems

It takes a network to run a network.

Industrial RevolutionInformation Age

Computing

Internetworking

“Big Data”

Steam

Electricity

?

We are Here

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/06/17/what_is_the_relationship_between_working_memory_and_intelligence.html

Image source: http://www.appliedi.net/blog/2010/02/10/track-website-visitors/

http://sarahgoshman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/lizard-brain.jpghttp://images.fatcow.com/data-center-photos/AffordableHostingSm.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/iphone/10298812/iPhone-launch-what-the-experts-are-saying.html

http://www.siongboon.com/projects/2012-03-03_rfid/index.htmlhttp://www.railroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?10124-Montgomery-Tunnel-VA-(56K-Warning)

http://lifehacker.com/5941997/defrag-your-brain-with-a-spark-file

“The two spaces point to different ages in brain evolution, one in which dispositions sufficed to guide adequate behavior and another in which maps gave rise to images and to an upgrade of the quality of behavior. Today they are seamlessly integrated.”

From Self Comes to MindConstructing the Conscious Brain, Antonio Damasio

IQYourCo ≈

IQ ≈ f(Gf,Gc,…)Gf: fluid intelligenceGc: crystallized intelligence…Gq: Quantitative ReasoningGsm/Glr: short term / long term memoryGs: Processing speedGt: Decision speed

IQYourCo ≈ ?

Gf: fluid intelligence

Corporate DevOps / LeanNear real time analysisCollaborative information flows across

hierarchy

IQYourCo ≈ ?

Gc: crystallized intelligence:

IBM WatsonWolfram Alpha (information + computation)PageRankEntity extraction (unstructured -> structured)

IQYourCo ≈ ?

Gq: Quantitative Reasoning

Monte Carlo, other large scale quantitative techniques

Machine learning, classification

IQYourCo ≈ ?

Gsm/Glr: short term / long term memory

Comprehensive data storage / access architecture

Both structured and unstructured dataInternal / external API strategies

IQYourCo ≈ ?

Gs: Processing speedGt: Decision speed

Human collaborationEmbedded analyticsComplex event processingHuman / machine symbiotic workflows

IQ ≈ f(Gf,Gc,…)Gf: fluid intelligence (Mostly human?)Gc: crystallized intelligence (digital recall)…Gq: Quantitative Reasoning (machines)Gsm/Glr: short term / long term memory (machines)Gs: Processing speed (symbiotic)Gt: Decision speed (symbiotic)

IQcorp ≈ f(G?,G?,?, ?, ?)

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Thank YouJim Stogdill

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